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“Both parties are feeling a lot of stress,” Roskam said. “I think the good news here is that we have a capacity to do something and to change our country and to move this thing into a different direction.”

Roskam said new leadership could result in bipartisan agreements to change what he called outdated systems, like the tax code.

But when pressed further on whether his party’s presidential candidate could win, Roskam had enough and walked away without looking back.